Example sentences of "she [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maria 's heart clenched as she slanted a look at his grim countenance . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps I can stay here , ’ she whispered an entreaty . |
| 3 | Britain therefore experienced a credit squeeze in the early 1990s during a period of recession in much the same way — and for much the same reasons — that she experienced a credit boom during the period of growth and ‘ overheating ’ in the mid-1980s . |
| 4 | Carol , aged 29 and a first-time mother , was induced just four days before her baby 's due date because she experienced a rise in her blood pressure . |
| 5 | She experienced a sense of detachment before cutting herself , and the act seemed to relieve feelings of anxiety and tension which usually arose from problems in her relationship with her boyfriend . |
| 6 | As she sat there , she experienced a sense of what seemed to be preternatural power . |
| 7 | With a good heavy hot iron , it would stop belling out here and there , she thought , and she experienced a flash of pleasure at the quickness and deftness of her work . |
| 8 | Now , standing beside Fernand in the mouth of a gash in the cliff , with the river raging beneath their feet and an ink-dark cavern ahead , she experienced a tingle of awe and anticipation that swept away the fear and the vertigo . |
| 9 | She experienced a lot of pain and perhaps always would ; her privations may have damaged her health permanently . |
| 10 | And to be his was what she wanted — which made it such a nonsense that when , as he caressed his hands over her naked behind and then pulled her to him , that as her body came into contact with the pure maleness of him , she experienced a moment of totally unexpected panic . |
| 11 | She said that she had nearly given up the idea , but ‘ every time she met a cripple her conscience smote her ’ . |
| 12 | One day she was at Serenity and she met a boy from the Holy Sepulchre of the Expanded Neurosphere , and he told her she did n't have to be an imaginary princess any more . |
| 13 | She met a man in the Lady Chapel . |
| 14 | After about two years she met a man whom she loved and agreed to marry although worried that her daughter had stayed very withdrawn from him . |
| 15 | She met a woman from Bombay who told her they had a food co-op there to earn money . |
| 16 | Might it have happened that she met a horse drawn set on its way to day , and that she squeezed herself against the tunnel wall in a vain attempt to let it by without harm to herself ? |
| 17 | In meditation , she met a cigarette in human form , to understand what functions smoking was serving for her . |
| 18 | This evening , she decided , she would tell the man she met a thing or two . |
| 19 | One day she met a traveller sitting by the roadside . |
| 20 | In the naked fear of falling in a space so huge that she did not know whether she was falling up or down , inward or outward , she met a fear so great that it burned away forever all the other fears . |
| 21 | If she met an alien in Wandsworth High Street , she 'd be telling it the way to the supermarket and offering it free babysitting before you could say ‘ flying saucer ’ . |
| 22 | When she threw back her veil , she revealed a face of perfect beauty . |
| 23 | Opening the nearest , she revealed a store of golden grain . |
| 24 | As her swing got better and better , so she revealed an attitude and inner calm which are not given to very many . |
| 25 | She read a poem called I am not good at love , written by Noel Coward . |
| 26 | She read a draft OSF position paper which focused on the importance of portability , the adoption of OSF technologies — the Distributed Computing Environment , Distributed Management Environment and Motif — by USL and the expansion of their camaraderie beyond a common API . |
| 27 | She read a lot of magazines : Cosmo in high school and then Vogue . |
| 28 | Her incentive to take up painting came after she read an article in the Sunday Telegraph about Brigitte Bardot , and , in particular , a poem titled ‘ Complaint of an abandoned dog ’ . |
| 29 | She roasted a chicken and made a fresh fruit trifle for supper as it was my last night . |
| 30 | She avows a joy in the handling of materials and the studio 's non high-tech tools . |